Word: project
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When Italy declared war on the Allies almost four months ago, Lorenzo Perosi, director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, locked himself up with a project in the Monastery of St. Benedict, 40 miles from Rome. Last week Musician Perosi had completed his self-appointed task, and waited for the Axis (or British) generals to finish theirs. Ready for the proclamation of peace was a Perosi-composed "grandiose Te Deum...
Early in 1940 U. S. Steel Corp. finally drew up a plan for a $35,000,000 project which caused impetuous little President Getulio Vargas to announce that the U. S. and Brazil were at last ready to collaborate. But inability to agree on property rights led U. S. Steel to break off negotiations. Yankee imperialism was damned in Latin metaphor and Japan was added to those desiring to bundle up with Brazil...
...population gain in the past decade, San Francisco was hard hit, and better-apartment vacancies rose from 10 to a whopping 20%. A jittery Apartment House Owners Association frightened the city out of accepting a $2,500,000 United States Housing Authority grant for a slum-clearance project. In Detroit, Birmingham, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, rents looked about the same as last year. In Chicago, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Omaha, they were a modest...
...literature begins on courthouse steps, in general stores where men chaw, whittle and tell tales. With a fond ear for briarhopper speech the Tennessee Writers' Project (WPA) gathered 25 well-chawed, well-whittled anecdotes from the Great Smokies to the levees in God Bless the Devil-(University of North Carolina Press; $2). Their themes are lady-killing fiddlers, horse races, knife duels, preachers, hunting dogs, log-cabin adultery, possums, milk snakes, the witch of Red River who chased brave Andy Jackson back to Nashville...
...known the employees' plan is the first such group "hostel" project to be put into operation for the refugee children in the United States...